In the second of our installments highlighting the opportunities to work overseas at Pinsent Masons, Mehdi Ali a third seat trainee tells us about his experience of moving from Leeds to Dubai for a six-month seat in our Middle East office. One of the main reasons I chose to apply to Pinsent Masons was their global reach…

This is the first in what will be a short series of postings from our trainees who have spent time working away from their home office either in an international office or on secondment with a client. In this edition Caroline Hearn sends home a postcard from Paris. On a warm July afternoon I got a call…

It has been a longer break than intended between blog posts but January has proven to be a very busy month for the Graduate Team and we have not even reached vacation placement deadline date yet (31 January). During the last few weeks we have been focusing our efforts on our office open evening programme, which…

The US advertising guru and author Roy H Williams once wrote that, ‘A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.’ Hopefully this post will demonstrate that I am indeed ‘smart’ and…